Comments on: 1521 Grand Opening

By: Interested buyer

Interested buyer — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:37:44 +0000

Lev,

The columns…. hold up…. the building.

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By: The MD

The MD — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:28:11 +0000

El Puso, say what? LOL

By: El Puso

El Puso — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:49:39 +0000

MD,

The ice is melting beneath your feet.

By: The MD

The MD — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:28:59 +0000

Lev, its because the building was “designed” by Weber Thompson. Supposedly they’re like “good” architects in Seattle. Well, I find all their buildings to be VERY dull, unoriginal, and typically just slab-sided glass with a couple of details. There’s absolutely no imagination or anything inspiring in ANY of their buildings, whether it is residential or commercial/office.

By: Lev

Lev — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:46:02 +0000

I think this building looks terrible. I could see it go up from my office. First they set the columns in from the corners so we thought cool the corners of the building will be transparent floors will appear like they are floating, but then they covered it with dark glass so you can’t see it. so why did they spend the money to pull the columns in? i wonder… and what are those white vinyl looking “single family type windows supposed to do for the design?
Also, overall, it looks like a cheap copy of the 2 Union Square building – similar color, shape and it even has the white cap!

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:06:48 +0000

I think there is some conflation here of disreputable and dangerous. I’ve lived in Seattle for 25 years, and in Belltown for 15. The Denny Regrade, and Pioneer Square have always had plenty of homeless and street drunks who looked like hell, peed in doorways, shoplifted, and muttered to themselves, but they were not particularly dangerous, leastways if you left them alone they weren’t. If you were involved in the drug trade or prostitution, things were always dicy, but that seemed mostly to be limited to alleys at 3am.

What seems to be new in the last three or four years is young men from all over the county coming down to the clubs and restaurants with guns, and hair trigger tempers. During the nineties 2nd ave between Blanchard and Bell had big crowds in the evening, but I don’t recall any shootings.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:13:12 +0000

ABR,

Yes, the cops are following the orders of a pacifist mayor. If Nickels pretends their is not crime, then in his mind it does not exist.

What a joke.

By: Affluent Bitter Renter

Affluent Bitter Renter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:03:49 +0000

To be fair to the cops, they are just following the dictates of their political masters.

By: The MD

The MD — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:25:07 +0000

Matthew is absolutely right on this one. Seattle has done a horrible job at keeping its crime at bay from the downtown core. Other cities have done a much better job of keeping the crime contained. Here in Seattle, it keeps spreading like a cancer. SPD is the LAMEST excuse for a crime-stopping force I’ve ever witnessed. In fact, I’ve witnessed SEVERAL drug exchanges (not mary-jane) where the Seattle police actually sat there and just watched it take place. I would point it out to them, and they simply would look the other direction as if they couldn’t be bothered by it. A bunch of p*ssies! This city’s priorities with what crime is and isn’t is completely out of whack with reality and reason.